First off: Remember this one?? For those that don’t want to click through and read it all again: that was the one where I snarked at a guy who, based on his understanding of Catholic theology, opposed marriage equality by (among other things) comparing homosexuality to obesity. His basis for the comparison was that both … Continue reading »
Posted in June 2009 …
Friday Fluff: The Shapely Manor
Does anyone remember the episode of Family Ties where Elise and Stephen Keaton go out of town and leave Alex in charge? And he turns the place into a cozy little B&B called Keaton Manor, and rents out rooms? Yeah, so the other SP bloggers are living it up in Minneapolis this weekend, leaving me … Continue reading »
They’ll kick you, then they beat you / Then they’ll tell you it’s fair
Whatever your thoughts on Michael Jackson, his fame, his music, and his troubled life, I think we can all agree that the songs from Thriller were pretty much the best thing to ever happen to music videos. What I can’t help but think right now is that Jackson’s strange life demonstrates that it is possible … Continue reading »
Allegorical Figures
The local commuter paper ran an interview today with John Currin, a painter who deals in explicitly physical and sometimes pornographic images of women. (The first picture on the linked slideshow, actually, is NSFW.) I find his work interesting, if sometimes (deliberately) disturbing; I wouldn’t exactly count him among my favorite painters but I have … Continue reading »
Open thread: Follow the rules?
Shapeling RedSonja has a question that we think you all can answer better than we can. Let’s play collective Aunt Fattie! Here’s the situation: My boss was telling me the other day that his sister and her children are coming to visit. Apparently she felt both fat and ostracized in high school (I say felt, … Continue reading »
Midweek link roundup
When I was in school I always used to get in trouble for talking or passing notes with my friends instead of doing my work. Little did I know it would prefigure my blogging habits. Sure, we haven’t turned in a lot of essays, but here’s a peek at what we’ve been passing notes about … Continue reading »
Happy Birthday, Al!
He’ll probably kill me for this, but I like acknowledging birthdays, and if his birthday isn’t all about me, I don’t know what is. His present didn’t arrive in time (read: I didn’t order it in time), but I’m currently letting him sleep in and considering other generous and heartfelt expressions of love, such … Continue reading »
I would need a lot more than a Bacardi Breezer to be able to stomach this
Via Jezebel and The F-Word, a nauseating ad campaign from Bacardi (warning: link plays music and also destroys your soul) suggesting we all make ourselves feel prettier…by standing next to an “ugly girlfriend.” That concept right there tells you everything you need to know about what sexist assumptions underwrite these revolting ads: self-esteem is a … Continue reading »
Friday Fluff: Fetus Naming
So, this starts in a non-fluffy place. Lord Saletan wrote this asinine-even-for-him essay claiming that pregnant women who refer to the sweet little parasites in their wombs as “fetuses” instead of “babies” run the risk of dehumanizing them so much that they’ll end up giving birth and sticking the kid in a freezer. NO SERIOUSLY … Continue reading »
You think you have self-esteem? That’s so cute, you poor thing.
Sweet Machine noticed this otherwise-okay article from the New York Times. She commented, “This article is not so bad… But the ‘what about your heeeeeealth’ caveat is even more ridiculous than usual.” Indeed, check it out: But others point to serious health consequences of being overweight. Andrea Marks, a specialist in adolescent medicine in Manhattan, … Continue reading »
